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# interest

«interest» in Mova's school dictionary: **the feeling of wanting to know more about something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (interest, interests); verb (interest, interests, interested, interesting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Interest is the feeling of wanting to know more about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#m1)

2) An interest is something you like doing or learning about, like a hobby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#m2)

3) In money, interest is extra money a bank pays you for saving, or extra money you pay when you borrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#m3)

4) To interest someone means to make them want to know more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, people share interests with friends; school projects can follow a child's interests. In maths, interest is money added on, usually as a percentage; if a bank pays 10% interest on $100, you get $10 extra. Phrases: take an interest in, show interest, lose interest, interest rate, in your interest, of interest.

### examples

- She has a big interest in dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x1)
- My interests are football, drawing and reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x2)
- The bank pays interest on my savings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x3)
- He lost interest in the game after a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x4)
- Does space interest you? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x5)
- It's in your interest to finish your homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x6)
- Places of interest in London include the Tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x7)
- Show interest when your friend tells you a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x8)
- Finnian received that information with respect and interest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/#x9)

### note

Adjectives: interesting (a thing is interesting), interested (a person is interested in something). «Interested in», not «interested on». In money problems, interest is added to the starting amount: save $200 at 5% interest for a year and you have $210.

### In the corpora

- [Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/4/)
- [Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/5/)
- [An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/12/)
- [Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/2/)
- [The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «interest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.